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New website for a forensic musicologists

Peter Oxendale is now one of the UK’s top forensic musicologists and UK expert witness, single joint expert (SJE) for the music trade but back in the day he was better know as a keyboard player with Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Alison Moyet, Bonnie Tyler, Paul Young and produced music for acts like Torvill & Dean. Peter has enjoyed a long career in music as a session musician, record producer, arranger, conductor and programmer but now, working with son James and his wife Carolyn their work is focusing on forensic musicologists and UK expert witness. Our brief is to complete a user friendly, WordPress website that can updated by the...

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website design for mobile devices

Why use us for your web design?

If you Google “website designers in Kent”, or “East Kent” you will probably find a list of good quality designers profiling their work on some very nice websites. If you’re looking for a new website designer that may sway your decision process, ie… They’re top of google in their own trade Their own website is nicely designed And to be honest that’s a great start so why look any further? A website is not just for Christmas Sorry to use the C word in September but it is important to remember your website designer is a long term business partner, so will they… Reply to your email questions quickly? Pick...

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iphine server stacking emails

Client’s iphones causing problems with emails

We’ve been having a bit of a purge these last few weeks with high volume stacking on our servers. A few clients use WebMail as their main email archive which can cause issues if not managed properly, but the main culprit is the iphone! Androids don’t appear to have the same email management problems iphones have, and when contacting clients identified as high server users it’s nearly always been an iphone causing it. Help is at hand in the shape of our very useful support pages: youraccount.nimbushosting.co.uk/knowledgebase/24/Setting-up-iOS-iPhone-iPad.html but if still unsure you can call anytime. All accounts are now restricted to 500mb and the vast majority of accounts never go...

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happy birthday google

Happy Birthday Google – comes of age!

Happy birthday Google, 18 years young and still growing strong. From a web designers point of view I think you do a great job considering all the black hat things going on. From a client/browsers point of view, it’s a great service Just pay the taxes and even more folk will love you!

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new website for local deal kent joiner

Craftsman’s website is cutting edge

Clive Harris is a well established local, Deal, Kent based carpenter/joiner. We built a basic little website for him about 5 years ago but with the recent Google mobile friendly requirements he needed to be mobile friendly. Construction trades are especially vulnerable if their websites are not Google mobile friendly as a lot of their new customer enquiries are from the public who on the whole use mobile devices like iPads, tablets and mobile phones to source suppliers (don’t we all). Clive’s new website conforms to all Googles latest requirements including SEO (search engine optimisation) so we expect Clive to get even busier over the next few months with new...

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new wordpress website for local garden maintenance co

New website and logo for gardening company in Deal

Local garden maintenance company Fairview Gardens based in Deal recently had a change of management and decided a new logo and website were required. The logo was a simple adaptation of the original design completed by us about 5 years ago. But the website was a complete re-design with new images and text content supplied by the new owners. The WordPress website design is fully editable by the client and Oast House Media supplied all the images from a partner image library along with free training and support “We are absolutely thrilled with the new website design and logo. Nigel was very helpful and imparted web knowledge above and beyond...

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anti-spam filters

New anti-spam filter making a big difference

Last week (WE 9/9/16) we put a special offer out to clients who use our email services. It’s in response to the massive increase in targeted spam hitting everyone these day. Following week and one client already has something positive to say: “Morning Nigel. FYI this appears to be working as I have not had any junk so far……saves me so much time. We may even be able to get on with the website.” Wendy, Nicholas Harris Interiors This is the offer… Getting loads of spam? We have a fix! We’ve had a few clients contact us about high spam volumes recently on email accounts (pop3, imap, forwarders hosted by...

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lifetime driveways website design

New website commission for local driveways company

Another first this year, we’ve built plenty of websites for the construction trades like builders, plumbers, roofers, painters etc but not a driveway company. The new design has to achieve a good Google profile in no only Kent but also the SE home counties and London. We’ll build in all the necessary SEO to achieve this goal and more: WordPress content management Editable SEO Add new pages Change photos in a bespoke image gallery Add news posts Submit posts to social media Contact form Slide show of projects Training and support holding page lifetimedriveways.co.uk

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free wordpress training in kent

FREE WordPress training for all our web design clients

It’s all very well designing and developing beautiful Google friendly, responsive website designs for our Kent based business clients, but do they know how to edit them? Here at Oast House Media we know our new and existing clients with re-designed WordPress websites want an easy to use editing platform. That’s why we use WordPress to design our web pages. They also need to know how to do change page content like text, images, add new pages and news posts, update their SEO keywords FREE Training (also see our training page) As part of our design package we offer free training courses, they take from 30 minutes to 2 hours...

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Charlie Elphike MP

Dover MP slates BT as the broadband issue escalates in Kent

My local MP has sent me this encouraging reply to an email sent as part of a national campaign. Looks like many BT direct (or indirect) customers have had enough. This could be the beginning of some good news for broadband in East Kent, fingers crossed! Thank you for contacting me about broadband and BT. I appreciate how important broadband is to both individuals and businesses. Reliable, fast broadband should be available to everyone in our country. It is essential for every business and household. More needs to be done to ensure that all parts of the country, particularly rural villages have the access to the broadband they need. The...

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